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ATN acquires Canadian broadcast rights for 2018/19 Indian Super League

Indian Super League (ISL)

The Asian Television Network International Limited (ATN), Canada’s largest South Asian Broadcaster and pioneer broadcaster of Cricket, has announce that it has acquired Broadcast rights for the fifth season of Indian Super League being held in India between September 2018 and March 2019.

The Indian Super League (ISL) kicked off in 2014, which is co-promoted by Reliance, Star India and supported by the All India Football Federation (AIFF). India’s leading industrialists and celebrities from sports as well as the Indian film industry have heavily invested in the league’s ten franchises based in the following cities: Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Guwahati, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru and Jamshedpur.

“We are very excited to bring the Indian Super League to Canada on 5 of our channels,” said Dr. Shan Chandrasekar, President and CEO of ATN. “Our commitment to bring different programming options to our viewers continue with this new addition to our current line-up of Afghanistan premiere League and the upcoming Cricket series from Australia and New Zealand.”

Indian Super League features 10 clubs playing at 11 different venues with a total of 90 group stage games and 5 playoff matches. All games will air LIVE on 5 ATN stations namely CBN, ATN Cricket Plus, ATN Life, ATN Punjabi Plus, and ATN Bangla.

(ATN)